No Marriage certificate

[Mark_A]

We actually have the license from the service and it is signed by the appropriate parties. It is the certificate that we are missing. It never made it to Hennepin county

Yes, I understand, but that doesn't mean anything to the county government since not everyone who gets a marriage license actually gets married. Also, the license is expired, so you would have to get a new one if you decided to get married again.

The county government might say that there is no guarantee that the church actually sent in the information about the marriage ceremony, so claiming it got lost in the mail may not be sufficient for them to issue a marriage certificate.

 

[quincy]

We actually have the license from the service and it is signed by the appropriate parties. It is the certificate that we are missing. It never made it to Hennepin county

It had been awhile since I viewed my own marriage license and marriage certificate so I took a look - and both the license and certificate appear together on a single-page document. The marriage license is at the top of the page and the certificate of marriage is at the bottom.

Does any other state use a single-page document for license/certificate, or do your states use two separate documents, one for license, one for certificate? Just curious.

 

[cbg]

Single page in MA

 

[not2cleverRed]

Single page in MA

Yeah, mine wasn't even a full sized sheet of paper.

 

[not2cleverRed]

It had been awhile since I viewed my own marriage license and marriage certificate so I took a look - and both the license and certificate appear together on a single-page document. The marriage license is at the top of the page and the certificate of marriage is at the bottom.

Does any other state use a single-page document for license/certificate, or do your states use two separate documents, one for license, one for certificate? Just curious.

Marriage license is what you get before the marriage. It's not proof of a marriage. No reason to keep it long term.

Marriage certificate is on file with vital records. You can get a certified copy, usually from the same place where you get certified copies of birth and death certificates. You should always have a copy in your files, just like your birth certificate.

 

[Bali Hai Again]

This could be a blessing in disguise, think long and hard before fixing it. Don’t poke a sleeping bear.

 

[Joeb5266]

It had been awhile since I viewed my own marriage license and marriage certificate so I took a look - and both the license and certificate appear together on a single-page document. The marriage license is at the top of the page and the certificate of marriage is at the bottom.

Does any other state use a single-page document for license/certificate, or do your states use two separate documents, one for license, one for certificate? Just curious.

MN is 2, our license is separate. I have never seen our certificate so I can't say what it looks like. The license looks like a certificate you get for passing an online educational course